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Nope.
As other people have articulated, the buzz of walking down an over-stimulating congested high street is hard to replicate (however other cities are available) and there is a definite ‘small’ mentality from the people who’ve never left a place but the quality of space/air/countryside/etc make up for that. After a year here we are also now starting to make new friends, admittedly mostly DFLs.
Dramatic_Hammer-
As I say, there are clearly loads of benefits of not-London; trying to weigh them up against what's been lost (identity, culture etc) is the hard bit.
I've posited to Mrs2wheels that we're perhaps just in the wrong bit of not-London. Thing is, once you have kids and they are at a school (which they love and can't bear the idea of leaving) it becomes much harder to test the waters elsewhere until you find your place.
Timmy2wheels
Anyone on this thread regretted their move so much that they've done a reversy percy?